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• Insurance companies and your rights as injured parties

  Joe Stanley | April 30, 2007 4:23 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  In ohio like many states the insurance companies and big business have you popular myths and folklore stories to severely limit the right of victims of wrongful conduct.http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/17157917.htm As is always the case those without power are penalized. Limiting victims rights does not lower insurance premiums.I just generates more profits for insurance...

• Accidents and lawsuits what to do?

  Joe Stanley | April 26, 2007 2:31 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Unfortunately in todays legal climate juries and people in general are suspicious of car accident slip and fall victims construction worker accident and lawsuits in general. After representing injured victims for over 25 years it is important if you have been injured in an accident to document who was responsible by pictures witnesses and by whatever means possible. Make sure that any police or...

• Dog Bites - Watertown - The one free bite rule

  Rob Quattrocci | April 24, 2007 9:21 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Miscellaneous

  In New York we have law in effect that requires someone injured by a dog to show that the dog had prior vicious propensities. This can be shown in a number of ways including showing that the dog had bitten someone else prior to your bite or by showing that the dog exhibited vicious tendencies such as bearing his teeth, growling etc. Showing that a dog had prior vicious propensities can be very...

• Seat Belts and Car Accidents

  Joe Stanley | April 20, 2007 10:21 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  As New Jersey Govenor Corzine discoverd not wearing a seatbelt can have serious consequences. All states except one Vermont have seatbelt laws aid a limiting injuries in car accidents. The penalties and the reach of the law differs from state to state.Mainehttp://pressherald.mainetoday.com/v iewpoints/editorials/070419seatbelt.htmlNew York has a fairly restrictive seat belt law.Failure...

• Worker Killed in Fall at St. Jude

  Christina Cole | April 20, 2007 2:25 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Workplace Injuries

  In a construction accident on Tuesday, a worker fell 40 to 60 feet to his death at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.Construction officials refused to release any details about the accident victim. The only information they would say is the woker fell 40 to 60 feet and that the victim worked for a masonry subcontractor."We are saddened by the loss, but we know very little at this point,"...

• Driver Drags Man Under Car in Accident

  Christina Cole | April 17, 2007 2:09 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  A man is lucky to be alive after being hit and then dragged by an SUV for almost a mile while the driver ignored the thumping sound under his wheel, New York state police said.The man, 22, lost his lower lip, right bicep muscle and broke his right shoulder while he was pulled throughout the parking lot, around a traffic circle and up and down a round. After the car accident, Tuesday, he was...

• Ibuprofen May Increase Heart Attack Risk

  Christina Cole | April 09, 2007 9:12 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs

  Mount Sinai School of Medicine researchers have found new evidence that ibuprofen can increase the risk for osteoarthritis in patients that are already at risk to heart attack. Researchers compared combination treatments of low-dose aspirin with drugs ibuprofen, naproxen and the cox-2 inhibitor lumircaboix. They discovered high cardiovascular risk patients that took ibuprofen and aspirin...